Congratulations to the Santee Cooper Board of Directors for today’s decision not to raise electric rates to pay for the now abandoned nuclear construction project at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Fairfield County. Now it is SCE&G’s turn to make the same announcement for its ratepayers. If Santee Cooper…

The South Carolina Small Business Chamber in partnership with the New Alpha Community Development Corporation and the Kingdom Living Temple in Florence, SC, has launched an on-the-ground effort to educate small businesses, citizens, the faith community and other organizations along the I-95 corridor of the valuable role of the Environmental…

Urgent!! August 17 is deadline for comments on offshore drilling We’re making it easy for you to tell the feds to keep offshore oil drilling out of the Atlantic. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is accepting public comments until August 17th to start this two year process. Your comments…

Henry McMaster, Governor of South Carolina, has made it very clear that he opposes both seismic testing and drilling for oil in the Atlantic. Now one of his challengers in next year’s GOP primary has weighed in on the issue of offshore drilling. According to the Charleston City Paper, Catherine…

Statement of Frank Knapp, president & CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce: With Santee Cooper’s decision today likely to be followed by a similar SCE&G announcement tomorrow, there are two important issues needing to be addressed. 1. The business and residential ratepayers must be made whole…

Charleston Post and Courier July 30, 2017 With two new nuclear reactors billions of dollars over budget, years behind schedule and in danger of being abandoned entirely, one would think that SCE&G would be reeling financially, far beyond even the dramatic stock dip its parent company SCANA suffered on Friday.…

Charleston Post and Courier July 17, 2017 By Mary Katherine Wildeman South Carolina customers who buy their insurance through the federal marketplace may face some of the highest out-of-pocket increases for their health insurance if the Senate plan to reform the Affordable Care Act is passed, a recent analysis…

Charleston Post and Courier July 13, 2017 By Tony Bartelme A new study predicts more “nuisance flooding” in coastal areas across the United States, including Edisto and Kiawah islands. Kyle Simmons wades through water to check on the home of his grandmother following Hurricane Matthew on Edisto Island on Oct. 9,…